Hi! My name
is Carolyn Golowka and I am the County Coordinator for The
ALGenWeb Project site for Montgomery County, Alabama. I
love to receive submissions for the site and to hear from
anyone with ancestry based in Montgomery. Do contact me if there are any broken links as well
as for any comments or to send me your wonderful
submissions.

History

Montgomery
County was created December 6, 1816, by the Mississippi
Territory General Assembly and was named in honor of Major
Lemuel Putnam Montgomery who was killed in the Battle of
Horseshoe Bend in 1814.

The city
of Montgomery was voted in 1846 to become the permanent state
capitol. The first Capitol Building was completed in December
1847. In December 1849 this building burned. Money was
appropriated in 1850 to rebuild. Over the years, the Capitol
Building was added to and remodeled.

In 1861, Jefferson
Davis was sworn in as President of the Confederate States of
America in Montgomery, the first capital of the CSA.
Montgomery County was represented in this new government by
William Parish Chilton (1810  1871), former Chief
Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court. In 1886, the first
electric streetcar system for our nation was installed
here. The nation's first flight school for powered was
founded here in 1910 by the Wright Brothers Rosa Parks simple
act of taking a seat in the front of the bus after a very
tiring day took place in Montgomery in 1955. Dr. Martin
Luther King's 1965 march from Selma was to Montgomery ended
at the state capitol steps. Montgomery has been a
center for many firsts in our country.

Montgomery
County had a population of 209,085 in 1990 with 84,525
housing units; land area is 789.87 square miles (505,520
acres); water area is 9.94 square miles (6,359 acres).

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Montgomery County researchers.

I do not live in Alabama so I
am unable to help with your personal research questions.
All the information I know about Montgomery County is
posted promptly on this site. Please visit the "Research
Resources" section of this
site. I would suggest that if you don't find the
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